Allen County

Scottsville. Octagon court house. Built in 1818 by John Birks.
Razed in 1902, and a new courthouse was erected in 1903. Two story. Cupola.
The courthouse was surrounded by an iron
fence during the Civil War, and used for storage of guns and ammunition.
The building also served as a temporary place of worship for many churches that
had to building of their own. The eagle atop the original courthouse was placed
atop the 1903 courthouse.

Barren County

Beckton (Rocky Hill). Octagon house. Built about 1850 by
William Henry Edmunds. Located at 1182 Beckton - Rocky Hill Road.
Single story. A plantation house, four hexagon
rooms, with ceilings sixteen feet high, surrounded a ten foot diameter
chimney, which housed fireplaces for each room. The doors were ten
feet high. Four other buildings existed, but only the office building
seems to still exist.

Kenton County

Ludlow. 12-sided house. The Latta house. Built in 1903 by
George T. Latta, and designed by his father, inventor Alexander Lotta.
Located at 254 Latta Avenue.
The house has 10 rooms, and has been lovingly restored.

Left click on the images below for larger versions.

The image at the left, above, is of a postcard from 1920 or before.
The middle photograph is from the 1950s. The photograph at the right was
taken in 2009.

Source: Ellen Puerzer.
Entered: October, 2009.

Mason County

Maysville. Irregular octagon house. Built in 1848, by John Porter Dobyns.
Located at 838 Fleming Road.
The Glen Alice house. Alice, after Dobyns
daughter, and Glen, perhaps because it was build in a glen.
Dobyns went bankrupt in 1858 and sold the house to an associate.
A.K.A. the Dobyns-Atkinson house. The Atkinson faimily owned the house
from 1940 to 1990. The house apparently still has a lot of original features.
14 foot ceilings. Original plaster crown moldings.
5,000 square feet. 5.2 acres.

Simpson County

Franklin, Octagon hall. Built between 1843 (Orson Fowler
published "A Home for All" in 1848.) and 1859 by Andrew Jackson Caldwell.
Said to house Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. Being restored to
1860s period status. Home of the Kentucky Confederate Studies Archive/Museum.
6040 Bowling Green Road, Franklin, KY, 42134. 270-586-9343, or byrd@kih.net.

The owners provide the following information:

The house was started in 1847 finished in
1859 by A J Caldwell. All materials were formed on site, even the corner
bricks are 5 sided in order to preclude a corner seam. All Flemish bond and
built with hired & slave labor. Each side of the octagon are 18' wide. All
interior walls are also 3 brick thick with original plaster over bricks with
hand-split slats under plaster on the ceilings which have been re-painted
the original colors. The floors are pit sawn poplar (originally painted
chocolate brown) & still painted. Foundation is hewn limestone 8' x 32" x
32: thick. The house is completely original except for changing room use to
facilitate bathrooms and kitchens which were added in 1920's by Dr. Williams
who bought the house from original owners in 1919.The house was never
abandoned but the cupola was hit by lightning and burned in 1920 and never
replaced by Dr. Williams. The attic framing is still visible with char
marks. The next owners were heirs of Mrs. Williams who passed in 1981. The
heirs then used the house as tenant house for whoever leased the farm, then
to a standard rental until 2000. We then took possession as a non-profit
foundation with a 100 year historical deed in trust from the last heir and
owner. The grounds include a slave cemetery, two original log slave cabins,
smokehouse, carriage shed, & barns constructed in 1862 and 1919
respectively.(and a sugar maple which sprouted in 1641).

The house is open
for tours and houses Civil War artifacts from the area and the grounds,
electronic and paper reference library.
Billy D. Byrd Director

Warren County

Bowling Green, Two 12-sided (possibly 13 or 14 sided ) buildings.
Built in 1871 or before.
Single story. Cupola. One has an attachment. The function of the
buildings is not clear.
Shown at the center of a segment of an 1871
map of Bowling Green.
Source: R. Kline
Entered: July, 2002.